Does and Fawns South Alabama switching habbitats?
09-25-2012, 05:08 PM
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Fork Horn
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Location: Pensacola Florida
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Does and Fawns South Alabama switching habbitats?
Here is my question, anyone from the South here can help me out on this, as most of you know I live in the south most part of the State of Alabama, Our rut here is generally not until the 2nd or 3rd week of January, In North West Florida which borders my property I heard of the rut starting as late as mid February, My Question Is when should the fawns be dropping?! I have had my trail cams out over corn here for the past week and have had about 8 different does visiting the site on a daily/nightly basis, only one doe has a fawn, this seems very ODD to me because last season on my trail Cams I had 8 different big shooter bucks and only 1 doe that would regularly visit, this year I was expecting to see the bucks back but unfortunately I haven't seen one of them. It seems as if the bucks and does switched for the year! Hard for me to Believe but thats what it looks like. Could this be? Also if the does were rutting late January how old should the fawns be? and with all those bucks from last year, I figured fawns would be running around all over the place. Someone please fill me in, Im very frustrated.
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09-25-2012, 05:46 PM
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Boone & Crockett
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Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
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I'm just east of you, near DeFuniak Springs. Last Saturday I saw my first spotted fawn of this year. They will continue to be commonly seen till mid Nov, and I have seen small spotted fawns into Dec. Gestation is about 205 days for a whitetail.
09-29-2012, 08:49 AM
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In the Union Springs area of Alabama, near Midway, where I hunted from the late 1970's until the early 2000's the does came into heat in mid to late January - and some years after the season ended on Jan. 31. It was common to see spotted fawns well into November. On that land, I had seen strong buck territorial markings (fresh rubs and active scrapes) down into spring turkey season. One year I watched two bruiser 8 pointers duking it out for about a hour .... mid March.
Where I have hunted these past 10+ years (about 1/2 way between Columbus, Ga. and Eufaula, Al.) there is a large percentage of does around that property that come into estrus around late November-early December. I have been told that this is a result the deer that were stocked into that area back in the 1930's.
Where I have hunted these past 10+ years (about 1/2 way between Columbus, Ga. and Eufaula, Al.) there is a large percentage of does around that property that come into estrus around late November-early December. I have been told that this is a result the deer that were stocked into that area back in the 1930's.
09-29-2012, 06:56 PM
#5
dpj, I live in Gulf Breeze...if you ever want to shoot sometime, we have an archery range over here...
to answer your question, I have trail cameras out and have already seen spotted fawns born in late August and one just born last week at our camp just north of Munson.
to answer your question, I have trail cameras out and have already seen spotted fawns born in late August and one just born last week at our camp just north of Munson.
